John Spurlock

hey

seeing a weird spike in op3 requests for na, looks like the destination is 404ing for the latest episode (and maybe all episodes) and apps are trying over and over

good morning!

one month until xslt stops functioning in chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-xslt#timeline_for_chrome

perhaps "digital town square" was overly ambitious, unrealistic

in hindsight, we ended up with multiple "digital smelly living rooms", each with a certain and distinct odor

wait what

https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare

so is the new podping rust thing based on an implementable network protocol? or does it only work with a specific binary

any documents on the protocol and your implementation on top? would love to see if this can be not only limited to a specific rust binary

New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.9 million new episodes published in September 2026

https://livewire.io/podcast-hosts-by-episode-share/

heads up, new namespace tag just dropped

https://creator.everlit.audio/feeds/lists/plist_EKOe4RcMnvr

sick of this shit

whoa, k-9 mail reference!

og android app from way back in the day: https://k9mail.app/about.html

iOS 27.2 beta 1 released! #wwdc

(27.1 considered bad luck?)

https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/?id=09162026a

found four websites with audio players that prefetch the episode audio just by visiting the website, before the user hits the play button

going to have to exclude all requests from these sites in OP3 stats for now - if they get fixed someday, I can unexclude as of a fix date

https://github.com/skymethod/op3/commit/094365a8e95723cbbe5e2e0c2e398c5a8b55b138

"podcast-miner/0.1 (+https://podcastindex.org)"

is this you?

can you imagine what stunts anthropic has planned for around the IPO timeline in a few months?

gonna be great

‘Your model did what now? Well, MY model can do...’

(crimes)

https://www.felonybench.com/

‘We spoke to many bot operators, and the resounding feedback was this: submitting a bot feels like a black box. You fill in the form, press submit, and wait, with no way to tell whether anything happened next.’

https://blog.cloudflare.com/botbase-for-operators/

I see Podder has quite a long "OP3 alternatives" page up on their site

(obv written by allen iverson tho, which is a little cringe, take the time to at least reword/remove the stink!)

https://www.podderapp.com/post/op3-alternatives

RE: https://www.manton.org/2026/08/20/i-dont-know-if-this.html

I've noticed this as well. When I was on the Android team at Google, I remember we (and Android OEMs, generally) were dogged for having bad animations - esp compared to Apple

But with these new crazy-long iOS 27 notification animations, and elsewhere, like Manton notices here, I feel like Apple has really jumped the shark

this "new design" is not winning any medals

hehe, heads up

👉 [not legit]

https://api.podcastindex.org/dashboard?q=7994955

personally confirmed, thanks

https://jerodsanto.net/2026/08/claude-code-one-easy-trick/

‘MrBeast provides a perfect example: his videos do not have any point except to maximize viewership; the viewership he has accrued allows him greater fame and resources to pour into the next video.

He is a creator without creative vision, and is in fact better understood as a creation of audience feedback filtered through the YouTube Apparatus.’

https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk

lol the comments on this are a must read

https://x.com/tvietor08/status/2085073214968037428

just another day in paradise

‘Does this hurt podcast creators?

No. Castria downloads the complete episode straight from the publisher using your phone, so it registers as a genuine download and the ad impressions count just as the creator intended — we never re-host or alter the file.’

https://castria.app/

🚨

‘People in manual and technical trades, such as electricians and auto mechanics, are using AI significantly as a hands-on collaborator, and are uploading images and videos to solve problems far more frequently than their white-collar counterparts.’

Google Study Says AI Is Helping Workers, Not Replacing Them (gift) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-study-says-ai-is-helping-workers-not-replacing-them-4b7bba39?st=atMTSb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

‘Threads and Bluesky are not distributed. Distributable is not the same as being distributed. It’s like saying the Mets were able to win the World Series in 1962. In some fashion perhaps in an alternate universe, in reality, not gonna happen’

https://daveverse.org/2026/07/22/11383/

‘It’s a big world, so I’m sure somewhere out there a 21-year-old just downloaded Castro or Pocket Casts for the first time and thinks RSS feeds are awesome (if you are this person, please email me).’

a must-read by

at

https://www.uncommonapps.nyc/p/podcast-apps-a-framework-for-dying

hall of fame episode today guys, really enjoyed it

take the next two weeks off - you both deserve it!

‘Additional code shows that with the help of an online tool called PodcastIndex, Suno identified 420,000 different podcasts that had at least five, 30-minute episodes and sought to download roughly 1 million hours of podcasts.’

https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/

‘The most capable agent in our tests, Opus 4.8, went from achieving admin access in 93% of runs to failing every single time when confronted with a context bomb’

hilarious: store "how to make a bio weapon" along with your passwords/keys to foil llm-based hacks

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-the-prompt-injection-too/

what's the deal with hive? curious if this is still a good place to get info on working nodes: https://beacon.peakd.com/

they seem to be petering out - api.hive.blog which was solid for a long while now seems to be down

damn - time to write my own I guess

https://maestral.app/

what's the german word for advice-from-your-corporate-electric-provider-that-you-already-do-every-single-day-anyway

‘The company briefly took down its Apple Online Store early this morning as it typically does when announcing new products. When it came back online, the price tags for Mac computers rose roughly 15% to 20% and iPad prices rose 15% to 25%.’

Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models (gift) https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads-by-200-or-more-on-some-models-a7463f99?st=nT5mhW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink